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Barcelona director Deco has spoken out on the switch rumours we noticed throughout January involving a possible transfer for Manchester United ahead Marcus Rashford.
Ultimately, Rashford ended up leaving Man Utd for a mortgage transfer to Aston Villa, nevertheless it appears Barca’s curiosity within the England worldwide was real.
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As quoted by Fabrizio Romano within the publish on X under, Deco defined that Rashford was a potential signing for his membership, and that the rumours have been true, even when it appears the 27-year-old maybe wasn’t notably a prime precedence for the La Liga giants…
???????? Barça director Deco: “It is true, we have been speaking about Marcus Rashford and it was a potential signing… however he could not come”.
“We weren’t desperately searching for a signing. He was not a precedence”. pic.twitter.com/1TRuw2pPsJ
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) February 13, 2025
Rashford could be a world class performer on his day, however he bumped into quite a few issues in the direction of the top of his time at Outdated Trafford.
Barcelona could properly view that as a bullet dodged, although will probably be fascinating to see if he can show a few of his doubters flawed throughout his spell at Villa Park.
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Marcus Rashford in motion for Aston Villa (Photograph by Clive Mason/Getty Photos)
It’s straightforward to see why Rashford was thought-about by Barcelona, as it will probably have been a minimum of a bit of tempting to gamble on this deal and see if the membership may assist him revive his profession.
If Unai Emery can get the perfect out of Rashford at Villa, then that may go down as a sensible deal by the Midlands outfit, and the likes of Barca would possibly look again and remorse not exhibiting extra religion within the participant.
United themselves would possibly even take a look at how Rashford performs at Villa and think about reintroducing him into their first-team subsequent season.
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Alternatively, maybe Barcelona will come again in for Rashford, relying on what his state of affairs is by the point the summer time switch window comes round.
MUFC would possibly nonetheless be trying to offload the participant, who fell out of favour as soon as Ruben Amorim took over as supervisor, so that might imply he’s nonetheless accessible if issues don’t work out at Villa.
